Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence

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Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Ethnographic Notes from the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence 1 Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane 2 Disparity in Disasters: A Frontline View of GenderBased Inequities in Emergency Aid and Health Care 19 Roxane Richter 3 Participant and Observer: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Women’s Shelter in Tokyo, Japan 29 Sharman L. Babior 4 Crafting Community through Narratives, Images, and Shared Experience 51 Stephanie J. Brommer 5 “We Couldn’t Just Throw Her in the Street”: Gendered Violence and Women’s Shelters in Turkey 71 Kim Shively 6 Institutional Resources (Un)Available: The Effects of Police Attitudes and Actions on Battered Women in Peru 91 M. Cristina Alcalde viii 7 Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Workers’ Cultural Models of Domestic Violence: An Ethnographic Examination 107 Cyleste C. Collins 8 Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from the Male European Front Line 129 Uwe Jacobs 9 Cultural Politics of a Global/Local Health Program for Battered Women in Vietnam 139 Lynn Kwiatkowski 10 Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia 165 Julie Hemment 11 Memorializing Murder, Speaking Back to the State 191 Belinda Leach 12 Laliti, Compassionate Savior: The Hidden Archaeology of Founding a Shelter 211 Jamila Bargach Contributors 223 Index 227 ...